Naruto kills an animator - Death by Naruto
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Imagine dying for Naruto. I think you go to Hell for that.
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Dude died a dishonorable death. And he can't commit sudoku.
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Say what you will about that picture, compared with more recent pictures of Phil's, he looks almost mammalian here.
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Still better than working in the Japanese animation industry.
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"And this is a pool of liquid sulphur that we will keep you in, only taking you out once every week to avoid getting you accustomed to the stinging pain MWAHAHAHAHA!"
-"ちょっと待って... I get a day off every week? どもありがとうミスターロボト"
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Oh surely not that advanced, I mean look at the pitiful mother fucker he is barely able to walk upright.
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At least he didn't die in a fire like that old Sunrise guy.
And death by overwork is the most honuraburu death attainable in peacetime, even if it's for a bad cartoon.
And death by overwork is the most honuraburu death attainable in peacetime, even if it's for a bad cartoon.
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Is this going to be the new way of the Samurai? Death by honorably overworking on an anime series? I
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Imagine dying for a cartoon that retarded...
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Japanese studios usually don't care about the little guy.
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Japanese companies will pummel even their best workers into gibbering, incoherent sacks of jelly and then not even blink when they drop dead. Death from overwork is just a temporary bureaucratic/PR nuisance because there's hundreds of identical replacements competing to fill the dead guy's desk before his body is even cold. I'm sure the reaction from this man's employer was an indifferent "whatever".
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Comes out of not having to deal with a union, which the industry in Japan lacks.
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See this is why every other country makes Koreans do all the animation grunt work. Get with it Japan.
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Depends on the business. I knew a guy who was a plumber in Japan and he worked similar hours to an American in the same industry. No one thought he was expendable, either; people who've gone through trade school are valuable. Union membership isn't very high due to most heavy industry moving away in recent decades, but unions are legal.
Cartoonists have a rubbish time, since they're easily replaceable and don't unionise. The situation is extremely different for tradesmen or professionals with skills requiring extensive training.
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Pretty much what happened. Of course here in the states, we already have a tightly organized union that resulted in most productions, usually for TV, to be outsourced by default these days (unless newer digital methods have started to reverse the trend).
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...about ninjas? Quite dishonorable indeed.
The studios are often bumfuck establishments weebs put on a pedestals over big production companies, which make sure that shit gets done by pushing deadlines and sucking the souls out of animators believing life will be like Shirobako, only to be crushed by reality. I believe Gainax is now ran from somebody's garage after most the major figures who gave the studio autonomy to create its famous original series left.
The production companies are unionized rather than the studios, which contributes to the bureaucratic nature of not giving a shit about the animators. You also have representation by agencies who manage collective bargaining between parties, making it more confusing.
Who said they don't? If you look at translated credits, you can see all the Korean names. In fact, like Taiwan, it's getting too expensive to outsource to South Korea, and work is now going to Vietnam. Considering Japan has a greater degree of protectionism, from animation to agriculture, sub-par working conditions is a last-ditch effort to compete with cheap foreign labor and computers. You didn't see people at Hanna-Barbara complain in the 1960s. The quality just went to shit after we lost all our talent, and consequently you started seeing American co-productions with Japan or France.
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It's true they do seem like an "in-name-only" affair nowadays. They're just there to secure the IP's.
I'm glad they do so. US studios for years often didn't care to credit these guys unless on feature films.
Perhaps even mainland China if it came to that.
No doubt a strike that occured with the union animators in 1982 didn't help matters.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/untold-t...ves-and-studio-strikes-chapter-11-103143.html
http://hanna-barbera.wikia.com/wiki/1982_Animators_Strike
https://animationguild.org/about-the-guild/the50s-the90s/